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India: Kashmir police arrest activist Khurram Parvez

Khurram Parvez's arrest follows Indian officials' move to stop him from attending UN rights council session in Geneva.

16 Sep 2016 10:38 GMT

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have arrested a prominent human rights activist, a day after he was barred from travelling to Switzerland to participate in a session of the UN Human Rights Council.

Khurram Parvez, the chairman of Asian Federation Against Involuntary Disappearances, was arrested at his home in Srinagar, the capital of Jammu and Kashmir state, late on Thursday, police said.

On Wednesday, immigration officials at New Delhi's international airport barred Parvez from boarding a plane to Geneva even though he had a valid visa and letter of invitation from the UN body.

Authorities "told [Pervez] that due to orders from the Intelligence Bureau, he cannot travel to Geneva", Parvez Imroz, the president of the Jammu Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society, said in a statement.

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